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Re: Why can't Republicans or Conservatives get behind Alan Keyes?

If an offical sanctioned Church can create rules that elected officials must follow they hold power over the government and become intertwined. You are making this more complex then it actually is.

They don't become intertwined to the level of a theocracy generally. Britain had the test act for a century but we weren't a theocracy. You simply don't seem to understand what a theocracy is. It is more than religious influence, it is a complete or almost complete merging of state and church.

You are simply misusing a word for propaganda value against those you dislike like liberals who call any one who wants to limit immigration or multicultralism racist.

I'm not going to waste any more time. The reason he is not liked by many conservatives is because he embraces theocracy.

No he doesn't and you haven't shown how he does. Conservatives tend to have a great respect for religion and its necessary, to them, place in society.

As Edmund Burke said "Athiests are not our preachers and madmen are not our lawgivers."

"It is written in the eternal constitution that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." - Edmund Burke

Re: Why can't Republicans or Conservatives get behind Alan Keyes?

The same reason most mainstream conservatives don't support Ron Paul, or most mainstream liberals don't support Ralph Nader: Because they're lunatics. Although Keyes is even more insane than either of those two.

I supported Ron Paul for President. So, if the man I supported for President is a lunatic, then what does that make me? Perhaps, instead of flippantly dismissing Ron Paul as a lunatic and making statements that are the intellectual equivalent of a drive-by shooting, you should offer up something of substance for others to contemplate.

It makes me wonder, when you used to display the Gadsden flag in your profile was it because you believed in what it stood for or because you thought it looked cool? I'm guessing it was the latter. Men of words are nothing but the sum-total of their inactions. You are a man of words. That's probably why you're so afraid to approach women. Maybe this will inspire you to take action...

Re: Why can't Republicans or Conservatives get behind Alan Keyes?

Originally Posted by Ethereal

I supported Ron Paul for President. So, if the man I supported for President is a lunatic, then what does that make me? Perhaps, instead of flippantly dismissing Ron Paul as a lunatic and making statements that are the intellectual equivalent of a drive-by shooting, you should offer up something of substance for others to contemplate.

It makes me wonder, when you used to display the Gadsden flag in your profile was it because you believed in what it stood for or because you thought it looked cool? I'm guessing it was the latter. Men of words are nothing but the sum-total of their inactions. You are a man of words. That's probably why you're so afraid to approach women. Maybe this will inspire you to take action...

Re: Why can't Republicans or Conservatives get behind Alan Keyes?

Originally Posted by RightinNYC

Are you being serious, and implying that Reps/Cons are racists for not supporting a black conservative, or are you just starting an incredibly timely and topical poll to remind us all that Alan Keyes is ****ing insane?

hautey is trying to be the Al Sharpton of the forums these days. His racist implications speak more to his racism than anything he accuses backhandidly conservatives of.

Re: Why can't Republicans or Conservatives get behind Alan Keyes?

Originally Posted by Kandahar

The same reason most mainstream conservatives don't support Ron Paul, or most mainstream liberals don't support Ralph Nader: Because they're lunatics. Although Keyes is even more insane than either of those two.

Re: Why can't Republicans or Conservatives get behind Alan Keyes?

Originally Posted by chevydriver1123

What makes Ron Paul a lunatic? Same question for Nader

Neither of them understand that the real world is not an abstract concept. The fact that one can *deduce* their position on any given issue (even if one has never heard them speak about the issue at hand) should be a red flag that one is listening to an ideologue with little grasp of reality or any sense of practicality.

Keyes is even scarier than those two. At least with Paul and Nader, I get the impression that they mean well, as extreme as their policies may be. They're at least trying to make the world a better place. The World According to Alan Keyes, on the other hand, would be a very frightening place.

Last edited by Kandahar; 02-03-09 at 08:05 AM.

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